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For a good, semi-serious laugh, check out the #1 Bug in Ubuntu, over here. Avoid beverages while reading ;)

The problematic (sic):

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Microsoft has a majority market share | Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:
1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PC’s for sale have non-free software pre-installed
3. Observe very few PC’s with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PC’s for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

Some choice replies *chuckles*

I was able to reproduce this problem in an average of 85% of the cases. Seeing as this flaw concerns over ~85% of the worlds computer users, I think it should be given the highest severity rating.

I think this bug has been introduced by a design mistake concerning the function create_software_industry(). It should have a variable parameter list rather than a sole pcompany attribute.

As far as I am concerned, this behavior works as expected. It should be marked as a feature, not a bug.

Other replies are more serious, but bloody hell..! Had me laughing for a few minutes, this one :)

Honestly, I’m not that much of a computer geek, the only languages I know are the ones I use when conversing with real-life people and such. But I’ve been using free software for the past month or so, now, with no problems, including the OpenOffice suite, Firefox (which will get much better and safer with 2.0), Thunderbird, VLC player (bloody good - this is the ONLY media player you will ever need for almost every format available; I cannot stress how good this little piece of software is) and a host of other freeware programs.

The truth is, if Obsidian/Bioware makes a Neverwinter Nights 2 that will run on Linux (without the need to use Wine or Cedega), I’d switch to Ubuntu in a heartbeat. That’s probably the only thing stopping me now.